Goofy comedy classic.
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06/05/04
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game.... [More]
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Director: Robert Stevenson
Reviews for The Absent-Minded Professor
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Flubber provides fuel for a very funny piece of hyperbolic humor in the grand American tradition of Paul Bunyan, and Director Robert Stevenson and Scriptwriter Bill Walsh get plenty of bounce out of every ounce.
03/09/09
Top CriticThis is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.
06/04/07
Top CriticMacMurray is ideally cast as the car-hopping prof, and plays the role with warmth and gusto.
06/04/07
Top CriticDisney produces a goofy lightweight Mack Sennett-like family comedy fantasy film that's joyfully directed by Robert Stevenson.
02/11/07
No review available.
07/22/05
No review available.
10/21/04
Tepid live action Disney.
06/26/04
No review available.
06/23/04
Classic Disney, classic MacMurry.
09/22/03
Fun!
08/01/03
Enjoyable Disney effects comedy with good cast.
02/02/03
No review available.
11/26/02
No review available.
10/17/02
No review available.
08/29/02
Disney life-action for the simple-minded.
08/12/02
No review available.
07/26/02
Dated and silly, but still good family fun.
07/26/02
The original's simple humor looks remarkably tired compared with the story's energetic and much more inventive remake.
08/01/01
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